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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Life
Sex
Turns
Writing

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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